The Real Estate Economy: Will We Get Out of First Gear? What are Today's Drivers?

• What are the chances the US’s economy will go into another tailspin during the next 2 years? • May 29, 2016… The Treasury bill will be? • Housing is there still room for improvement? • Europe and the rest of the world… What are you thinking that might be against the grain? • Washington and the impact of continued dysfunction • The local economy in for the biggest rise is… The newest one to redline is… • Consumer spending and the impact of increase in payroll taxes

Mark Grinis

Global Leader, Real Estate Investment Fund Services

Ernst & Young LLP

Tony McGough

Chief Global Real Estate Strategist

BCA Research

Franz Colloredo-Mansfeld

CEO

Cabot Properties, Inc.

David Congdon

Senior Managing Director

Hines

Jeff Elowe

President & CEO

The Laramar Group, LLC

Hans Nordby

Managing Director

Property & Portfolio Research

Michael Katz

Co-Chief Executive Officer

Sterling American Property, Inc.

10:22 AM

State of the Industry: Are These the Good Times We've Been Waiting For?

• Are you expecting 20% returns? How? With 1% rates is 16 the new 20? • Developed market challenges • Capital gains and Obama care tax changes: Any impact? • Is the $$ finally leaving the sidelines and is now in the game? • Lending outside the major markets • Impact of the fourth quarter tax-lead deals • Washington budget and debt battles: Still an impact? • Are firms saying they are doing core but are really doing value-added? • Are return expectations permanently lower? • The debt fund story… any takers? • Fundraising update • Changes in structure • Investor sentiment • Will 2013 funds be a vintage year?

Robert Ivanhoe

Chairman, Global Real Estate Practice

Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Richard Mack

CEO, North America

AREA Property Partners

Barry Blattman

Senior Managing Partner

Brookfield Asset Management

Paul Fox

Managing Director

Cerberus Real Estate Capital Management, LLC

Robert Dombi

Partner

Landmark Partners

Warren de Haan

Chief Originations Officer and Managing Director

Starwood Property Trust

Joseph Sitt

President

Thor Equities, LLC

10:22 AM

Refreshments Courtesy of:

11:10 AM

Large Fund Plenary: With 24-Hour City Valuations Getting Frothy and Yield Compression a Reality, Where Are You Looking for '14?

• What red flag markets are now green? • Core vs. value-added vs. opportunistic • Alternative housing market plays…Is it time to start non- Multifamily development? Single family residential? Home building? • Are you using your passport more? I’m rotating out of … While rotating into… • Locking in the low rates? • Is your dry powder dwindling?

Alvin Katz

Partner

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Coburn Packard

Partner

Apollo Global Management

Chip Lippman

Managing Director

The Carlyle Group

Peter Fioretti

CEO

Mountain Real Estate Capital

Justin Guichard

Managing Director

Oaktree Capital Management

12:10 AM

Fundraising

• What are investors looking at other than returns? • Is it possible to reach your goal today without a 3rd-party fundraiser? • Where is the flow coming from? • Fund-of-fund fundraising • Perpetual fundraising • Raising value-added vs. core • LP view on leverage • 800+ funds are trying to raise capital and less than 10% are successful…success factors

Scott Farb

Partner

Independent Investor

Amachie Ackah

Managing Partner

AREP LLC

Peter Braffman

Partner

Credit Suisse

W. Michael Crawford

Partner

Eaton Partners, LLC

Joseph Nahas

Senior Vice President, Institutional Marketing and Investor Relations

Equus Capital Partners, Ltd

Parry Singh

Co-Founder & Senior Managing Director

Red Fort Capital, LLC

10:22 AM

Luncheon for All Attendees Courtesy of:

Please Choose "A", "B", "C", or "D"

10:22 AM

Due Diligence for Acquisition & Downside Analysis: This is Not a Drive By

• What is the case for mezz in 2013? • Is lack of senior financing an issue? In cases where it is what are your doing about it? • Deal parameters in your ball park • 60? 80? 100? Where along the capital stack do you like to play? • Risk-reward • Development of the European market • Today vs. the 2001-2004 period • Is your goal to get to the equity? • Use of proceeds • Recap deals • Relative risk trade-offs between primary and secondary markets and leverage structures • Investor demand/preferences • Property and portfolio leverage and leverage structures • CLOs

Jeffrey Lenobel

Partner and Chair of the Real Estate Group

Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP

Tim Johnson

Managing Director

The Blackstone Group

James Henderson

Managing Director-Alternative Investments Group

Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers LLC

Skip Wells

Co-Chief Investment Officer

GE Asset Management, Real Estate

Randy Reiff

Managing Director, Head of Commercial Mortgage Finance / CMBS

Macquarie Group

Sujan Patel

Founder

Nantam Capital

Stuart Boesky

President & CEO

Pembrook Capital Management

Michael Butz

Partner, Investments

Torchlight Investors

The Financing/Debt Stream at IMN’s Opportunity Fund ForumSee the latest private fund real estate Financing strategies at The Financing/Debt Symposium at IMNs Opportunity Fund Forum. The Symposium will be a separate track during IMNs Opportunity Fund forum and all opportunity fund attendees are eligible to attend. If you are a debt provider, broker, fund or investor & want to meet the top funds and hear how they are financing or providing debt this is a must attend plenary. See link for details: http://bit.ly/XEz6NO.

10:22 AM

LP/GP Relations: The Fee, Promote, Incentive Debate

• Are investors still pushing back? • How much does it cost to run a fund? • Compensation/key man issues • Fee discounts for first movers • How important have fee levels been for LPs? • Fees for value vs. service • Fundof- funds and the double promote • Joint ventures, clubs and one-off deals • Performance fees • Are core funds overpriced? • Structural consideration

Joseph Smith

Partner

Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP

Dan Witte

Managing Director

LaSalle Investment Management

Ken Muller

Partner & Co-Chair PE Funds

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Lior Ohayon

Partner

Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

David Schwartz

Managing Member

Waterton Associates LLC

The LP Stream at IMN’s Opportunity Fund ForumHigh-Net-Worth, Private Banks, Family Officers, Fund-of-Funds, Pension Funds, Endowments & Foundations don’t miss the sessions dedicated to the LP by the LP. At the LP Stream you will be presented with the key issues when evaluating and investing in real estate private funds.

The LP Stream at IMN’s Opportunity Fund Forum will be a separate track during IMNs Opportunity Fund forum and all opportunity fund attendees are eligible to attend. If you are an LP or want to hear they have to say this is a must attend plenary. See link for details: http://bit.ly/XEzbRC.

• Where and why are you where you are in the capital structure? • Total and Risk-adjusted return targets • Is owning the property your end game? What happens when it comes back to you? • Fundraising: Are investors interested? • Pref equity and “B”-piece evaluation

Mark Fawer

Partner

Brown Rudnick LLP

Raphael Sidelsky

Senior Managing Director-Principal Investments

C-III Capital Partners

Jeffrey Wiseman

Managing Director

Macquarie Group

Stuart Silberberg

Authorized Correspondent

Starwood Property Trust

Bruce Batkin

President & CEO

Terra Capital Partners, LLC

10:22 AM

LP Fund Due Diligence

• Are investors requiring greater due diligence before committing to a fund? • Alignment of interests • Track record • Focus on references and background checks

Irv Lowenberg

Treasurer

City of Southfield, MI

Stephen Davidson

Vice President

Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners

Amy Hirsch

Chief Executive Officer

Paradigm Consulting Services

Brent Burnett

Senior Consultant

Real Asset Portfolio Management

Jamie Biddle

Founder, CEO, and Portfolio Manager, Real Assets

Verdis Investment Management

Damon Krytzer

Managing Director

Highland Capital Management

10:22 AM

The Bank & Servicer Panel on Real Estate Workouts & Dispositions

• How do servicers manage conflicts? • Extend vs. foreclose • How should you be accessing notes & REOs from servicers and special asset officers? • Preferred disposition methods • Seller financing… Do you provide? What are the terms? • Workouts: How much new money should you bring to the table? What are the new terms? • Asset specific issues • Do you enforce judgments on guarantors and recourse? • Working under a federal guaranty… What does it mean?

Jeffrey Temple

Partner

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Terri Gumula

Vice President

Citi Community Capital

Michael Shah

CEO & Founder

Delshah Capital

Lawrence Smoler

Senior Vice President

Torchlight Investors

Scott Liebman

Managing Director-SNB StabFund Investment Management

UBS

10:22 AM

Refreshments Courtesy of:

10:22 AM

Core Strategies

• Gateway cities: What kind of returns? Are they within your parameters? • Government leases: Still AAA in an era of downsizing? • Core development… An oxymoron or a reality? • Post-recession leverage rates • Do investors remain interested? • Defining core and core plus • Postcrash performance

• Buying REITs vs. private funds • Real estate and overall allocations • How does the high-net-worth investors compare with other institutional investors? • Comparing the high-net-worth, the very high-net-worth and the very incredibly high-net worth I have more money than most 3rd world countries markets

Kenneth Weissenberg

Partner

EisnerAmper LLP

Seth Schumer

Director, US Investments

Quadrum Group

Marty Caverly

Chief Investment Officer

Resource Real Estate

Jahn Brodwin

Senior Managing Director

FTI Consulting

Alfred Jackson

CEO & Managing Member

Siridean Advisors LLC

Jack Creighton

Founder & Managing Member

Sourcenet Investment Services LLC

10:22 AM

Hotels

• Is all the restructuring finished? • Impact of mergers, the public markets & take private deals • Condo hotels 2.0 • Looking at the Caribbean? • Brand update • Luxury, middle market, the city or the shore: Where do you want to be? • Adding value to the hotel property: When is it the correct choice? • Gaming sector • Capital partner plays • Anything new on the operational side?

Deborah Friedland

Director - Hospitality Services

EisnerAmper LLP

Bruce Davidson

Managing Director, Hospitality & Leisure Group

Alvarez & Marsal Real Estate Advisory Services

Andy Stewart

Managing Partner

Argosy Real Estate Partners

Eli Braha

Managing Member & CEO

Berkley Aquisitions LLC

Ali Elam

Managing Director

Fortress Investment Group

Aditya Bhoopathy

Principal & Executive Vice President

Noble Investment Group, LLC

James Merkel

President & CEO

RockBridge

10:22 AM

Interest & Cap Rates in 3 Years... How are you Planning for the 4% Treasury?

Interest rates have been at historic lows for a long time but these levels can’t last forever. How are fund managers preparing for an increase in interest rates that may or may not come?

• With rents so high in certain markets are cap rates becoming less relevant? • Locking in leases and rents • Can you count on growth in gateway markets?

With the casualty rate for new funds being so high IMN has organized a pre-conference discussion focusing on both successful practices for putting together a new fund in 2013 as well as things that just didn’t work out the way you thought it would.

This will be a fund only discussion where the agenda will come from you…

• Who have you found? What are they lending on? What are the terms? • Refinancing: Structures and availability • Is there any financing outside of the 24-hour cities? • Junior financing • Would you go the recourse route? • Experiences with debt funds and other non-traditional lenders • Financing for turnaround properties

Dennis Russo

Partner & Co-Chair Real Estate Department

Herrick, Feinstein LLP

Jonathan Asta

Director of Capital Markets

Acadia Realty Trust

Mukang Cho

CEO & Managing Principal

Morning Calm Management

David Streicher

Partner

Rockwood Capital, LLC

Tim Stoner

Managing Director, Capital Markets

USAA Real Estate Company

10:22 AM

A Day in the Life of an LP

Unless you have been an LP it’s likely that you don’t have a clear idea of what their typical day looks like. Here’s a chance to hear some LP’s talk openly about what their responsibilities are, what their team looks like and how they prefer to be communicated with.

Steve Felix

Partner

Felix / Weiner Consulting Group

Alan Snoddy

Senior Vice President

Church Pension Group

Susan Doyle

Managing Director, Global Real Estate Funds

GE Asset Management, Inc.

Skip Miller

Director of Real Estate Investments

New York State Common Retirement Fund

Kathy Jassem

Portfolio Manager

State of NJ Treasury

10:22 AM

Vehicles to Best Attract Capital

• The Dow is at a historic high… Is it a good time for the IPO exit? Take private deals? • The REIT structure • Do you want to be beholden to the Wall Street analyst? • Are certain assets better to have in non-fund structures?

Subscription & Short Term Financing: New Commitments, Structures and Investor Complexities

Financing secured by the capital commitments of investment grade quality (or similarly-profiled) fund investors can often be obtained on more flexible terms usually reserved for corporate issuers and at better pricing than other financing alternatives available to fund sponsors.. The current state of the market, emerging trends, and structuring of such facilities will be the focus plus...

Due to opportunity or the lack of many funds have extended fund life or gone outside their fund parameters to reach their investment objectives. There are the slight shifts like writing debt in your equity fund org going into secondary markets. Other funds have gone through much bigger transformations. And still other funds just weren’t successful investments. This session will discuss the advisory board make up, role of the advisory board in approving such transformations, the role of the non-voting LP and the strategy/extension success/failure.

Colin Hill

Vice President

CIGNA Realty Investors

Alison Hawkins

Managing Principal

Artemis Real Estate Partners

Marc Weidner

Managing Director

Franklin Templeton Investments

Larissa Herczeg

Oak Street Real Estate Capital

Chip Parsons

Partner

Proskauer Rose LLP

William Avoli

Vice President

RockBridge

10:22 AM

Relative Value in the Booming Housing Markets

Multifamily-is it still hot? Single family rentals-already played out? Home builders and raw land-getting expensive? Student and senior housing-just not your bailiwick? Is debt capital the best choice? This session will compare and contrast all of the ways you can invest in the housing markets and where the current best opportunities are.

David Kessler

Managing Partner, Real Estate Group

CohnReznick LLP

David Butler

Managing Partner

Argosy Real Estate Partners

Tony Avila

Managing Principal and CEO

Encore Funds and Builder Advisor Group

Neal Johnson

Managing Partner

Isles Ranch Partners

Chad Carpenter

Chairman & CEO

Reven Housing REIT, Inc.

Frank Cappello

President, Eastern Region

SunCal

Oliver Swan

Managing Partner

Quad Real Estate Partners, LLC

10:22 AM

Office: Should you Continue to be Downtown with its Low Cap Rates or is it Time to Look for Opportunistic Returns in Secondary Markets or in Construction/Development? How about Alternative Office Classes?

24 hour cities valuation is resulting in getting value-added returns a challenge in today’s office market. Will demand recover enough to start exploring the possibility of opportunistic opportunities in secondary market? Should you consider non-multifamily construction again but will the demand be there upon the project completion? Is medical office an asset class to consider?

• Due diligence: What do you look for before purchase? • The securitization exit • NPLs in Europe • Sourcing opportunities • Current valuation, pricing and terms • What asset types? Geography? • Do you play in the residential markets? • Asset management • Do you buy preforeclosure? Do you foreclose? • Deficiency judgments and guarantors: Do you pursue?

• Investor due diligence • LP: How do you evaluate emerging managers? • Strategy and deal size • Going from JV operating partner to fund manager • What do you need in an LP eyes to be qualified to be an investment manager? • Advantages of being an investment manager • Getting the attention of consultants and fund-of-funds • Track record & role of operating partner in pre-fund deals? • What types of LPs are most actively investing in EMs today? • How interested are placement agents in supporting EMs? • Best format for an Emerging Manager (blind pool fund, separate account, club fund, single deal JVs)?

James Seevers, Jr.

Partner

Hunton & Williams LLP

Robert Morse

Chairman

Bridge Investment Group Partners

Jerome Gates

Managing Director

Hamilton Lane

Erin Wicomb

Co-Founder & Managing Member

The Mavrix Group

Claire Woolston

Senior Consultant, Private Markets

New England Pension Consultants

Rodgers Harshbarger

Director, Private Investments

UNC Management Company

10:22 AM

Europe, the Next Shoe to Drop and Worldwide Risk-Adjusted Returns

We’ve all gotten used to finding value-added returns without going further west than San Francisco or east of the Hamptons in the summer. As gateway city values are getting frothy should we consider getting on a plane to London, checking out Rio’s carnival, brushing up on our Chinese or getting out the black book of Indian joint venture partners? Meanwhile Europe continues to be Europe with Cypress, Greece and Whatever is next. Has Europe reached its low point and is now on the slow way back or is there another black swan waiting?

Ruprecht Hellauer

Managing Director

Albulus Advisors Germany GmbH

Tony McGough

Chief Global Real Estate Strategist

BCA Research

Scott Koenig

Director

Deutsche Bank

Caroline McBride

Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer

Forum Partners Investment Management LLC

Louis Klein

Founding Partner

IREO Management

Frederick Gortner

Managing Director-Chief Operating Officer

Paladin Realty Partners, LLC

10:22 AM

Refreshments Courtesy of:

10:22 AM

Aggressive Asset Management: What Aggressive Postures Did you Take?

• How much of your returns are due to active asset management? • Tenant retention issues where the new distressed buyer next door can charge less rent do to a lower cost • ESG… Does it really help? • How do your LPs evaluate asset management • How can you insure your 3rd-party property manager is aggressively managing your property? • International sustainability standards • How did you monetize the deals?

• How are LPs treating the double promote structure? Would you share a single promote? What are the options? • Decision making & control • Fund-of-fund vs. allocator • Monitoring • Allocators: When do you choose a manager? When do you manage in-house? • International allocations

Multifamily Investments: Do you Think There is Still Value to be Created Even at the Current High End of the Cycle?

• Now that the new construction of the past few years are coming on-line will this put pressure on rental pricing? How about the impact of single family rentals? • Has the downtown trend been priced into the apartment market? • Time for B/C stock or markets?

Jeffrey Goldberg

Managing Partner

The Milestone Group

Jonathan Bell

President

Bell Partners Inc.

Jay Martha

Managing Director-Property, North America

Henderson Global Investors

Jeff Meyers

President

Meyers Research LLC

Keith Rosenthal

President & CEO

Phoenix Realty Group

10:22 AM

Land & Homebuilding

• Private equity public homebuilding plays • The pre-crash land overhang: Are all the good, urban and close-in properties gone? • What to do about the ex-urban properties • Is the action still in shovel-ready plots or is it going down the food chain? • How many homes does the US need? • Local market dynamics: Where should you go?

Making the First Close a Good Close & the Keys to Re-Upping Your Existing Investors

• Identifying your cornerstone investor • Are re-ups more or less difficult? • What are the terms? • First mover concessions • Where is the push back? • Circling the lead investor ahead of time • LP–friendly amendments • When are you ready to announce your first close? • Investors due diligence requirements • What are the structural options that LPs want to see

Bradford Lenox

Partner

Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP

Allen Ashley

Partner

DLA Piper

Jonathan Glick

Managing Director

Incubation Capital Partners LLC

Claiborne Johnston

Managing Director

Invesco Real Estate

Gary Block

Managing Director

The Meridian Group

Joan Hayden

VP & Corporate Counsel

PGIM Real Estate

Adam Lesnick

Counsel

Seward & Kissel LLP

General Session

3:10 AM

LP Asset & Real Estate Allocations

• With such low bond market returns are you looking more toward real estate? • With core looking the same way are you considering more value added and opportunistic funds, and what are your internal institutional constraints? • Which RE sectors have the best upside potential on a ‘risk-adjusted’ basis? • Which RE sectors might be least damaged by any slowing growth / return to recession? • Impact of 3% Obama care rental tax • Fund vs. Direct vs. Separate Account vs. Club Deals

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Information Management Network - Privacy Notice

Introduction - Who we are

Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC (“Euromoney”, “we”, “us” or “our”) is
an international business-information group covering asset management,
price discovery, data and market intelligence, and banking and finance.
The group also runs an extensive portfolio of events for the telecoms,
financial and commodities markets.

For a full list of our brands and group companies, please click on this link.
Euromoney and its group companies are committed
to respecting the privacy of every person who visits, registers with or
subscribes to our websites, publications, events and other products or
services.

Euromoney is the primary data controller of personal data collected
through this website or that we may collect in different ways as
described in this Privacy Notice. If you are contacted by our other
group companies, they will also be controllers of your personal data.
This means that they are responsible for how your personal data is
used, just as we are. You may contact any of these companies directly,
or you can contact Euromoney by emailing dataprotectionofficer@euromoneyplc.com
or writing to the Data Protection Officer at Euromoney Institutional
Investor PLC, 8 Bouverie Street, London EC4Y 8AX, United Kingdom.

This Privacy Notice was updated on 23 May 2018

Our Approach to Your Privacy

This Privacy Notice outlines the information we may collect about
you in relation to your use of our products and services (“personal
data”). It also explains the legal rights that you have in
relation to your data and how you may exercise these rights.

Some of our group companies may collect and use personal data for
different purposes; those companies have their own websites and privacy
notices.

We will process your data for the following lawful purposes: with
your consent; to fulfil our obligations to you; and where there is a
legitimate interest to do so.

When possible, we rely on your consent to use your data for the
purposes described in this Privacy Notice. We also process personal
data to fulfil our contractual obligations to you, for example, when
you register for any of our services, subscribe to a publication,
sign-up for an event or purchase a product from us, we will need to
process some of your personal data. This will also include details of
the person/people responsible for payment (if different).

We may determine that processing your personal data serves both of
our legitimate interests. This is the case in relation to many of our
research, customer survey, sales, marketing and advertising activities
described in this Privacy Notice. These activities allow us to better
understand your requirements, which in turn enables us to provide you
with a better service. We review the bases for our processing decisions
carefully and you can object to these activities at any time (see the
“Your Rights” section of this Privacy Notice).

What Personal Data We Collect & Why

Our primary goal in collecting personal data from you is to give
you a relevant customised experience of our products and services.

Registration, Free Trials & Subscriptions

When you register with our website and/or sign up for a free
trial of our products or services, we may ask you to provide your name,
address, email address and telephone number, and details relevant to
your occupation or employer.

If you subscribe to one of our products or services, we will
also ask for payment details. Credit/debit card payments are processed
using a third party supplier and we do not retain the credit card data
(see the Third Party Sites of this Privacy Notice). Address details may
be shared with third party service providers engaged by us for order
fulfilment, delivery and payment collection. This personal data is used
by us to complete subscription requests.

Events & Conferences

If you have registered for an event through a group website we
may collect personal data including: name, job title, company, address,
telephone number and email.

This information is necessary so that we can complete your
registration for the event and provide you with relevant event
materials.

We may also provide delegate details (e.g. name, email) to
event sponsors who, subject to your consent, may contact you for their
own advertising and marketing purposes.

Advertising & Marketing

We use the personal data you provide us and which we collect
from you to inform you about similar products and services which we
provide. We may send you marketing communications that are sponsored by
our partners and which are targeted to your interests based on
information you have provided us such as job title, employer and/or
industry. If you have consented to receive information from other Euromoney
group companies, we may share your personal data with these
companies so that they can fulfil your request to receive marketing
materials in accordance with your preferences. We will not share your
personal data with any third parties for their own marketing purposes
unless you have provided your consent.

Each of the Euromoney group companies that may contact you is a
data controller in relation to the personal data that you have agreed
to share with them. If you have any questions or concerns, you may
contact the individual company, or us – using the contact details set
out in the “Who We Are” section.

You can opt out from receiving such materials at any time.

The personal data we may use for advertising and marketing
purposes includes your name, email address, job title, phone number,
company name/employer, geo location, postal address and data collected
using cookies and other similar technology (Please read our separate
Cookies Policy to find
out more about which cookies we use, how they work and how you can
control your cookie options).

Marketing materials are sent electronically, by post and we may
occasionally call you.

Online Targeted Advertising

We use targeted advertising on our websites to display
advertisements that are relevant to what we believe are your interests.
In order to deliver relevant advertisements, we use third parties to
deliver cookies that collect information about your IP address and how
you interact with our sites (e.g. browsing information, which articles
you have read etc.). This data is used by the third parties to
determine which advertisements may be of interest to you.

We may also share your personal data with third parties to
deliver targeted advertising to you on other websites (e.g. Twitter
Tailored Audiences or Facebook Custom Audiences). This could include
your email address, cookie data, and information obtained from third
parties. Third party cookies may also be used to enable us to target
advertisements to you on other websites that you visit.

Lead Generation and Scoring

We occasionally use the services of trusted third parties in
order to ensure that the personal data we use for advertising and
marketing purposes is accurate and up-to-date. To do this, we transfer
personal data of individual leads (such as name, email, job title,
location and phone number) to these third parties who conduct research
to verify the data – primarily against public information.

We also use algorithmic software technology to help us improve
the quality and relevance of marketing activities. The personal data
analysed by the software includes email address, phone number, job
title, address, purchase history and account information. This allows
us to provide meaningful offers that are relevant to your specific
profile.

Surveys, Market Research & Customer Feedback

We want to understand the needs of our readers and customers.
We may therefore use the information you provide us – including your
name and contact details – to contact you to request your feedback, or
to participate in our customer and market research.

Public forums, message boards and blogs

Some of the pages on our group websites may include message
boards, blogs or other facilities for generating content from users.
Any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public
information and you should always be careful when deciding to post any
personal data. User generated content is also subject to our site
Terms & Conditions.

Business or Asset Sale

If we sell a business or assets we may need to disclose your
personal data to the prospective buyer of such business or assets.

If Euromoney, or any of our group companies is sold or sells
our assets or is acquired by a third party, then personal data about
our customers will be acquired by that third party. A transfer of your
personal data in these circumstances would be necessary so that the
services you have contracted for can still be delivered, or so that you
can continue to enjoy the benefits of our free products and services.
You will receive notice if a new controller assumes responsibility for
your personal data.

Additional Third Party Disclosures

We may disclose your personal data to other third parties in the
following situations:

To third party partners who help us by providing services
such as technology, marketing, advisory or other services. These third
parties only receive encrypted data and may only process personal data
to provide those services to us.

Where we are required by law or regulation to do so. In each
case we will seek, where practicable, to minimise the amount of data
that is disclosed.

If required to protect the rights and interests of other
users and/or Euromoney and its affiliates (including our employees,
agents and contractors), or as otherwise set out in our
Terms & Conditions.
This may include exchanging information with other
companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection.

Email Tracking

We may include small pixel tags (small image files) within the
emails we send you in order to determine whether our emails are opened
and/or whether the hyperlinks inside our emails are clicked through. We
may also collect browser, location and the device used to engage with
our email communications. This information allows us to better
understand whether we are meeting our users’ needs and how we can
improve our communications. No other information is collected. You can
opt out of receiving our direct marketing emails either by following
the instructions in each email, or by contacting us (see the “Who
We Are” section of this Privacy Notice).

International Transfers

Some of the Euromoney group companies are based outside the
European Economic Area (EEA). If you have consented to being contacted
by our group companies, then the transfer of your personal data will be
made according to the terms of an international data sharing agreement
that contains obligations approved by European data protection
regulators. Any of our group companies that receive your personal data
will be co-controllers of that data, which means they may determine how
they process your personal data – although they may only use it for the
purposes for which it was shared, unless you are informed of new or
additional processing activities.

We may also transfer personal data to third party service providers
as described in this Privacy Notice which are located outside the EEA.
Where we conduct these transfers, we take all steps necessary to ensure
that your data is treated securely and in accordance with applicable
privacy legislation, either by only sending your personal data to
jurisdictions that provide an adequate degree of legal protection for
your data or by imposing approved contractual terms on these third
parties.

Retention Periods

We have a data retention policy that ensures we don’t use or store
your personal data for longer than necessary. We consider the following
issues to determine retention periods:

Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner or other regulatory
agency, or industry best practice recommendations;

The business rationale for collection and expiry of the purpose
for which personal data was collected;

Our ongoing ability to ensure the accuracy of the data; and

Legal and regulatory requirements.

We may occasionally need to keep personal data for either shorter
or longer periods than specified in our retention policy. In such
circumstances, application of the retention period to the data will be
temporarily suspended. The suspension of an applicable retention period
will be carried out in a manner that respects the rights and interests
of all persons concerned.

How You Can Set Your Data & Privacy Preferences

You can use our Preference Centre to select the topics that are of
interest to you so that we can send you publications and information
about our products and services that are especially relevant to you.
You can also choose the channels we use to contact you (email, phone,
post, etc.) and can also opt-out of receiving marketing communications.

Your Rights

You have certain rights in relation to your personal data which
include the following:

Access & Portability

You may request access to any personal data of yours for which
Euromoney is responsible as controller. Unless there are legal or
regulatory reasons for not doing so, we will confirm whether we process
any of your personal data and if we do, we will provide you with the
following information: the purposes of the processing, the categories
of personal data, any recipients of your personal data, the applicable
retention period and the data source. Copies of your personal data will
be made available to you in a structured, machine-readable format.

You may also request that we transfer the personal data that
you have submitted to us, to another controller, where it is
technically feasible for us to do so.

If you have consented to our processing of your personal data,
or if we are processing your personal data in order to fulfil our
contractual obligations to you, then you can submit a request that we
transfer your personal data to another data controller.

Rectification, Restriction, Objection

You have the right to request that Euromoney rectify any errors
in the personal data that we process. In some circumstances, you may
also be able to ask for the erasure of personal data, and/or request
that the processing of your personal data be restricted. You may also
object to the processing of your personal data for sales or marketing
purposes.

How to Exercise Your Rights

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us by post or
email at the following addresses:

Euromoney will do our best to respond to any questions and
address any of your concerns. You are also able to register any
complaints regarding the processing of your personal data directly with
the UK Information
Commissioner.

Protecting Your Data

Euromoney is committed to keeping your personal data secure and we
will take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect
your personal data from loss, unauthorised use, disclosure or
destruction. Although we do our best to protect your personal data, we
cannot guarantee that any transmission of data is without risk. We have
therefore implemented information security policies and rules, staff
training on information security, and technical measures to ensure the
integrity of data that we have under our control.

All our employees, contractors and data processors (i.e. those
third parties that process personal data on our behalf) are required to
keep such data confidential and not to use it for any purpose other
than the performance of services we have requested.

Third Party Sites

Our site may contain links to other websites – including, for
example, providers of payment processing services. Euromoney is not
responsible for the privacy and data collection practices of third
party sites and we therefore recommend that you review the privacy
policies and terms of service of each site you visit.

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